About Online IT Programs

About Online IT Programs

Online IT Programs exists to help you compare online IT degrees before you spend money and years on one. IT is a large field, and the degrees in it vary a lot: an associate degree in networking, a bachelor’s in cybersecurity and a master’s in information technology management have different costs, different prerequisites and lead to different jobs. This site puts them side by side so you can see the differences without opening a dozen school websites.

The directory covers 151 online programs at 118 schools in 36 states and the District of Columbia, organized into 10 rankings. There are rankings by level, such as the best online IT bachelor’s degrees, and by topic, such as online cybersecurity degrees and online network administration degrees. You can also browse programs by state. Alongside the rankings there are guides to the careers these degrees lead to, the salaries those jobs pay and the certifications employers ask for.

Who This Site Is For

It’s for people making a real decision. Maybe you’re finishing high school and weighing a bachelor’s in IT against a community college start. Maybe you work help desk and want a degree to move into network administration or security. Maybe you have a bachelor’s in another field and you’re considering a master’s to change careers. Most of our readers are working adults, so the rankings pay attention to things that matter when you have a job and a schedule: what the whole program costs, whether you attend on your own time and whether you’ll ever need to visit campus.

It isn’t for people who want to be told what to buy. The pages lay out what each program costs, how it’s delivered and what it prepares you for, and leave the choice to you. Where a decision has a real downside, the page says so. For example, an IT degree isn’t a requirement for many IT jobs, and our guide on whether an IT degree is worth it covers when it pays off and when certifications alone are enough.

How Online IT Programs Are Verified

Every program on the site starts from the school’s own pages. We read the program page, the tuition page and the admissions requirements, and record what the school says: the degree title, the credit requirements, the delivery format, the cost per credit and whether there are campus requirements. If the school’s page doesn’t state a detail, it doesn’t appear on the program card, because we don’t fill gaps with estimates or averages.

Program details are rechecked against the school’s pages on a rolling basis, because schools change their tuition and formats from year to year. The last full check is dated October 20, 2026. Where programs have changed, the data is updated, and a program that a school no longer offers is removed.

Federal data fills in what schools don’t publish consistently. Institution-level information such as school type, location and the number of programs offered comes from IPEDS, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System run by the National Center for Education Statistics. Accreditation claims are checked at the source: program-level accreditation against ABET’s published lists and the cyber defense designation against the NSA’s published list. Our pages on ABET-accredited online IT degrees and CAE-CD schools explain what each of those means.

Pay and job figures come from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. We use the May 2025 release of Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics for pay and employment and the 2025 to 2035 Employment Projections for outlook. These numbers are published by occupation, so the pages name the occupation each figure belongs to. For example, network administrators and systems administrators share one BLS category, and BLS has no separate category for network engineers, so the closest match is network architects. Pages say so wherever it applies.

How the Rankings Work

Rankings use published criteria, applied the same way to every program in a ranking. They weigh cost, delivery format, program level and what the degree prepares you for, such as industry certifications or accreditation. The full list of factors, weights and exclusions is on the methodology page, so you can check how a program arrived at its position or decide that a different weighting suits you better.

Rankings compare programs of the same kind. An associate degree and a master’s degree aren’t ranked against each other, and a price comparison across levels would mislead, so each ranking sticks to a level or a topic. When a ranking draws on the details of a program, those details come from the verified records described above.

If you’re ready to start, the rankings page lists every ranking, and the careers and salaries sections show where each degree can lead.

Meet the Founder

Kevin To graduated from Temple University in December 2025 with a B.S. in Computer Science and works as a web developer at Savo Group, where he builds and researches education program directories. He has always been into technology, and away from work he plays video games and follows sports and sports analytics.

When he was choosing a college, he didn’t know how to tell which programs fit what he wanted to explore. He works on Online IT Programs to help people compare online IT degrees and find the one that fits them.

Kevin researches and writes the site’s content, drawing on each school’s own published pages and on public data from IPEDS, the College Scorecard, ABET, the NSA and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He also designed and built the site, from the ranking methodology to the front-end code.

The site is published by Savo Media Group.

Advertising Disclosure

Online IT Programs is not affiliated with any school it ranks. It may carry advertising or paid program links in the future. Here is what that does and does not change.

The Rankings Are Editorial

Compensation does not affect the criteria, the weights, the scores or the order in which programs appear. A school cannot pay to be listed, to move up or to be left out, and schools don’t review or approve what we write about them.

Paid Placements Would Be Labeled

The site carries no sponsored listings or paid program links today. If it does, they will be marked and kept apart from the ranked lists, and if we are paid when a reader enrolls through one, that will not change what the reader pays.

Career and Salary Pages Carry No Commercial Relationship

The career guides and salary pages are written for information only. Their figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and are reported the same way regardless of any partnership.

Contact and Corrections

Questions, corrections and notes from schools go to hello@savomediagroup.com. A correction request is most useful when it includes the page address, what’s wrong and a link to the school’s own page showing the right detail. We check each correction against the school’s page and update the record when the page supports it.

Schools that want to confirm or update their details can write to the same address. Updating a record doesn’t change a program’s position beyond what the new data does under the published criteria.